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Kirk and Fred discussing a basic subject that Kirk has been speaking about for over three decades, Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and carrying the ideas of Gregg Hobbs, Ph.D. who termed the acronym and methodology
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have incomplete data. Isn’t data just data?
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Chris and Fred discuss this term we call ‘safe.’ What is ‘safe?’ How can we use the term ‘safe’ in industries that involve a lot of risk? Perhaps there is no such thing as ‘safe?’
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Greg and Fred discussing how risk assessment must be tailored to the context of the organization.
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Greg and Fred discussing how and why to conduct risk assessments.
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Dianna and Fred discussing software tools used by reliability engineers: the good, the bad, and pitfalls.
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Carl and Fred summarizing and discussing the latest questions received from readers and listeners.
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the use of FMEA when ramping up equipment in a plant. In this case, the equipment had been sitting dormant for a number of years.
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Kirk and Fred discussing their views on how to best learn the discipline of reliability engineering.
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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to ship a product that may or may not be safe and reliable.
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Chris and Fred discuss the ‘hierarchy’ of reliability engineering. Which is the hierarchy of the knowledge and terms we need to follow when we learn about reliability engineering. Is it possible to organize our thoughts in a better way?
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Chris and Fred discuss the terms ‘accuracy’ and ‘intervals’ … which are used a lot by reliability engineers. And how they relate to ‘confidence.’ So what to do any of these terms mean?
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about when it is OK to celebrate reliability successes. Specifically, how long you have to wait to feel comfortable you have a successful product when nothing bad happens.
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Kirk and Fred discussing higher education and the importance of a college degree in reliability for a career in reliability engineering.
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Kirk and Fred discussing failures in products after launch and the importance of and knowing how the customers use conditions.
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